חָדַר châdar — properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege)
Translated in the KJV as enter a privy chamber.
a primitive root; properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege).
châdar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
הַחֹדֶ֖רֶת Ezek 21:19 Participle (active), feminine singular
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›